Avoid sketchy neighbourhoods after dark in the evenings. They are much safer from 7 am till noon.
You can stay in phone contact during your ride (with a headset). Keep mentioning your route and position to your phone friend every two minutes, during the ride. If you are attacked, your friend can call the police for you directly, if you say "Help".
Or use a small mobile alarm device, or alarm software on your smartphone with GPS. That makes contact with an alarm company if you click the alarm button. These systems require a paid registration, but can also connect freely to the computer of a friend via mobile internet.
Your friend or alarm company can then track your route and location real time on his computer or smartphone. There are also alarm buttons that connect with your own smartphone via Bluetooth.
Use a folding bike. Then you can use a taxi or city-bus back home in the evening, while riding your bike in the morning to your destination.
Dress and disguise like a man, with gloves etc.
When you are pursued at night, ring at the door at the nearest house where you have seen someone inside.
Don't argue with strangers, even if they provoke you.
Sleep over after a visit at your friends house, if the ride home is not safe in the evening.
Make reliable friends that can help you if need be.
Find a reliable trustworthy person for an intimate relationship.
Avoid making friends or doing business with people that you don't trust!
Avoid conflicts.
Check reliable websites and web-videos about crime prevention.
Be careful.
Prevent ongoing stress and worrying, since it causes serious disease.
Find a safe neighbourhood to live and work.
Last edited by George3; 05-21-17 at 05:57 PM.